HREQ 1920 Lecture Notes - Orgasm, Femininity, Hegemonic Masculinity

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1920
• Professor: Elizabeth Brule

Document Summary

Male and female biological sexes are not enough there exists a variation. Questioning the notion of : understanding of biological and also the understanding of gender! Freud homosexuality and lesbianism as a third sex. As having a female and male brain. It was a sexual intrusion and/ or contrary feelings. He translated this biological sex into behaviours females as manliness and males and female like. We have made them synonyms to indicate alliance with ones sexuality. The discourses that we use have naturalizing effect. Symbolic power that masculinity carries with it - kimmel argued essentially the penis is a basis for cultural mascunility. This kinda of masculinity (hegemonic) as become our to express male power and dominance. Losing the phallus idea of women achieving maturity (orgasm) only through vagina and not clitoris the need for some men to feel the need to control women! Allinging relationships with sex, sexual identity and gender.